As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

We might impress people with our strengths, but we connect with people through our weaknesses.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary...We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.

Never let the presence of a storm cause you to doubt the presence of God.

If you want what NORMAL people have, do what normal people DO. If you want what FEW people have, do what few people DO.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

God will often give you more than you can handle so you can learn to depend on Him rather than on yourself.

Get out of the boat. Face your fears. Fail. Learn. Adjust. Try again. And watch God do more than you can imagine.

Most leaders are trying to figure out the right strategy. The best leaders are obsessed with empowering the right people.

If you want to reach people nobody is reaching, you've got to do things nobody is doing

Your race is your diminishing life

One thing I think, about humans is that we'd rather live in a comfortable lie then in an unpleasant truth.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Everything begins in thought and the reality is only our interpretation of the situation.

A conundrum of music is that music brings people together, yet to become a skilled musician involves a certain amount of lonely time in which you're just figuring it out, practicing.

the old axiom that 'all power corrupts' has doubtful validity, because it derives from our neglect of Plato's advice to find men carefully and train them by methods which make them fit for heroes.

Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time.